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Examples of abnegate
abnegate
What is the big abnegate is Speaker of the House Michael Madigan.
From the dailyherald.com
The suggestion that somebody is an anti-Semite is so bad that we should abnegate the need for confirmation or argument in support of the claim.
From the guardian.co.uk
Strictly speaking, the surfaces separating the different phases should also be perfectly flat, to abnegate the effects of surface tensions.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The play asks uncomfortable questions, showing up the liberal conscience in all its flawed dignity, and refusing to abnegate the complexity of political responsibility by giving any easy answers.
From the denverpost.com
- Deny: deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure; "She denied herself wine and spirits"
- Surrender (power or a position); "The King abnegated his power to the ministers"
- Deny or renounce; "They abnegated their gods"
- (abnegation) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief; "abnegation of the Holy Trinity"
- (abnegation) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
- Denial is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.
- To deny oneself (something); to renounce or give up a right or a claim to something; To abjure
